The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-10-30
ECONOMY.
Practical Demonstration il
House Furnishing.

1t frequently happens that women OF
taste, desiring to furnish their homes
in an elegant manner, have not the
necessary means to do so. To all such
1 would say: Do not despair. In the
| absence of the money, which would
make it easy to purchase the articles
desired. you must use your brains and
economic.
To q woman about to go to house
keeping with limited means, would
recommend the example of friend of
mine who recently went to Florida to
live, and who had to make the best of a
not plethoric purse.
She had not the means to purchase a
cupboard, but she took the big box her
piano came in and set it in the corner of
the kitchen, with the opening in front
After papering it inside and out with
comparative inexpensive wallpaper, at
40 cents bolt, q carpenter was called
strips of board inside for cleats, with
boards sawed the right length placed
across for shelves.
roomy place for the firkins and rasp-
berry jam, guavs-jelly, imported mar
malade and other necessaries. The
carpenter also made small box. placed
on the top, and corresponding in length
with the lower one. That was similarly
papered, and shelf put in about half
way between the upper and lower part.
so she had three deep, long shelves for
her silver, besides space at the bottom
for her china.
Covering the whole front of this neat
and convenient cupboard was a
brocaded silk plush curtain, arranged
to slide easily back and forth by rings
running on brass rod, The rings cost
aCout 5 cents each, the brackets Is cents
each, and the rod 81. She obtained the
silk plush at bargain-$5 per yard.
Eight yards sutficed, making the total
cost about $35.
AS chairs were scarce, she covered
soap-boxes and the like with silk plush
of handsome shade, which made very
stylish looEing seats.
Her work stand is made of little
deep, narrow box, one side being used
for the top, of course, with neat strips
of board, painted dark-brown nailed on
the ends for less, and the stand cloth of
hide the interior. This stand cloth cost |
but s. %.
The box that her Rogers group
Coming to theParson"-came from the |
factory in, has always been kept as
pedestal for that statuette, as it is as |
high and large across as suitable stand |
would be. 1t was covered first with |
stiff paper, to give smoother surface,
and then with an elegant plush and gilt
cover, which cost butts $3.50. Altogether,
It forms as pretty piece of furniture as
4 stand made at the factory would do.
One not used to anything but the re-
yulation chamber sets would be sur
orised to see what pretty substitutes can
De gotten up after the same general
tyle-the tables. with their dainty
oilet accessories; the stands, with their
pretty covers and splashers. My friend
prefers the real articles, of course; but
when they are lacking she will have as
pretty and convenient substitutes as she
IAN get.
Barrels are also utilized in a pretty
way. The one upon which Daisy keeps
Ter music looks quite pretty, covered as
is with antique lace over satin. Of
course, the inside is used for storage.
If it were not for taking up too much
DOM, l would speak of her shelving in
etail. There are so many places
vhere shelf or bracket, even of carved
Walnut, is an added convenience, and all
is removed by putting on
crochetted cover or a china silk scarf.
t makes me inwardly groan sometimes
4 visiting friends to see their unhandy
ousekeeping arrangements, making
heir work so needlessly hard, when a
tile DlaOniup and coOtrivanpn on their | {
art would make such a difference, and
g so economical.
Puck. WILLIAM b. SIvITER.